The rank of Commodore RFA was established in 1951 and since that date holders of this rank have been:

	From	To
Stanley G. Kent OBE	August 1951	May 1954
William Brunswick Browne OBE	June 1954	December 1955
Thomas H Card OBE	December 1955	January 1957
Thomas Elder CBE DSC	January 1957	March 1962
Albert E Curtain OBE RD	March 1962	August 1964
Eric Payne CBE	September 1964	June 1966
Griffith O W Evans CBE DSC	June 1966	January 1968
Joe Dines CBE RD	January 1968	May 1971
Henry O L’Estrange DSC RD	June 1971	December 1972
George Robson CBE	December 1972	May 1977
Samuel C Dunlop CBE DSO	May 1977	March 1983
James G M Coull	March 1983	September 1985
Barry H Rutterford	June 1986	May 1989
Richard Montgomery Thorn CBE	May 1989	May 1994
Norman D Squire CBE	May 1994	March 1999
Peter J Lannin CBE	March 1999	September 2003
Robert C Thornton CBE	October 2003	September 2008
William M Walworth CBE	September 2008	September 2013
Robert William Dorey	September 2013	October 2015
Duncan Lawrence Lamb	October 2015	October 2020
David Eagles	October 2020

The rank of Commodore Chief Engineer and more recently Commodore (E)

was first established in 1960 and since that date holders to this rank have been: –

David C. Leathley OBE	January 1960	September 1961
Reginald R. Darroch OBE	September 1961	July 1963
J. A. MacPhearson	March 1964	May 1966
William E. Young	August 1966	May 1972
John R. Warne	June 1972	December 1978
George S. Burnett	December 1978	January 1982
Albert C. Hawke	March 1982	August 1984
Thomas J.W. Humphrey	August 1984	September 1985
Allan Forster	September 1985	March 1989
Kenneth Lacy	March 1989	April 1993
Peter W. Goodman	April 1993	October 1995
Nicholas K. Ball	October 1995	April 2002
Michael D. Norfolk	April 2002	February 2008
David Preston OBE	February 2008	March 2014
Ian Schumacker	March 2015